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The universe is 13.77 billion years old, according to a new measurement taken using a powerful telescope in Chile, according to a Axios article published on January 07, 2021.
Another source agrees, that based on new observations the universe is indeed 13.77 billion years old, as the article is titled, "New Observations Agree That the Universe is 13.77 Billion Years old" published on January 07, 2021 from Universetoday.com.
From here, I thought about a Qur'anic verse regarding creation: "The Qur'an states that "Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days" (7:54).
The verses that mention "six days" use the Arabic word "youm" (day).The word "youm" is understood, within the Qur'an, to be a long period of time -- an era or eon. Therefore, Muslims interpret the description of a "six day" creation as six distinct periods or eons. The length of these periods is not precisely defined, nor are the specific developments that took place during each period. (according to the Islam Creation source)
The length of these days are long periods of time that are not precisely defined as the above mentions, so I thought to myself, let's try to precisely define these long periods of time (days) that is concordant with science and the Qur'an.
So I took the age of the universe (13.77 billion years old) and I divided it by the number of days it took to create the universe according to the Qur'an (six days) and I got 2.295 billion years.
From this, I concluded the following. One day which is concordant with the divine reality of God is roughly 2.3 billion years in the natural and material reality. 2.295 billion years precisely equals to one day in God's account of the time of the creation process, meaning that for God 2.3 billion years is just one day.
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Then I thought to myself how could I possibly validate this?
I look in the Qur'an for inspiration and in no more than a minute I saw this verse, "Ask ˹them, O Prophet˺, “How can you disbelieve in the One Who created the earth in two Days? And how can you set up equals with Him? That is the Lord of all worlds. (41:9)
The earth was created in two Days according to the Qur'an. From here, I researched how old the earth actually was and concluded that Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus about 50 million years. This plus or minus means that the Earth's age could range between 4.49 billion and 4.59 billion years old.
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